• @1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world
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      723 days ago

      I don’t have an answer for you, but I love how seemingly random it is. Like someone reached into a raffle bowl and was like “Okay ABCC11 you get… Earwax and <shuffles around> …ah. Body odor”.

    • @CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
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      423 days ago

      Maybe affects the kind of bacteria that can grow on your body? That’s where the smell in your armpits come from and earwax stops bacteria.

    • @flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
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      323 days ago

      Did you know that you can click the headline to get to an actual article that you can read, which answers this question?

      • @isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de
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        23 days ago

        guilty! should have read it before commenting blindly

        for everyone else reading,

        a dysfunctional ABCC11 gene is also connected to drier, less goopy earwax. “So less of that means less body odor, and also translates to dry earwax.”